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2024 Lexus RX 450h + AWD PHEV - Bottom Line Review

CORD -ABLE NUMBER ONE LUXE MOVER: Fully revised and less amorphous ovoid, a fifth generation "Radiance X [Cross]over," from Japanese luxury automaker Lexus, dawned in 2023 to carry on the most popular luxury car in America mantle. Amenities have been enhanced and user interfacing entered a remote

2025 Subaru Outback Touring XT AWD - What's New Review

2025 Subaru Outback Touring XT AWD model year update: HASN'T MESSED WITH SUCCESS - SO FAR: Launched in 1995, originally a quirky Legacy sedan off-shoot, over three million of the quintessential ruggedized active lifestyle sport wagon have found homes in America. Named after the vast Australian wilderness, the

2025 Mazda CX-70 Turbo S - Counter-Point Review

"Side Kicks," as the proteges of heros, are often depicted as the less serious complement to their mentors. Holmes had his Watson just as Cassidy had his Sundance Kid. Ambitious automakers, similarly have positioned more casual, Sport Activity Vehicles as complements to their heroic SUVs, typically sacrificing practicality

2025 Toyota Crown Hybrid - Re- Driven, Re - Configured Review

New trends can either be exhilarating or head scratching. Sometimes they can be both, as with the new automotive niche of hybrid electric active lifestyle executive sedans. In 2023, Toyota introduced the Crown four-door as a youthful targeting stand-in for the void of the Avalon saloon in their American portfolio.

2025 Lexus NX 450h+ AWD PHEV - What's New Review

2025 Lexus NX 450h+ AWD PHEV model year update : The second generation of Lexus' entry family worthy sport utility vehicle has come into its own. The Nimble X [for crossover] is the Japanese luxury brand's number two best seller. Sharing a TNGA-K platform with its Toyota RAV4

2025 Volkswagen Jetta SEL - Quick Drive Review

GETTA JETTA: Once a regal German made sport compact family sedan, (model named "King" in China), which was just snazzier upholstery away from an Audi and a liftgate away from a Golf, the Volkswagen Jetta fell on hard times in its homeland. By the late 2000's,

2025 Volkswagen Taos - What's New Review

Out of the legacy of New Mexico hippies and John Muir, the man who repaired their air cooled Type 2's and Beetles, in 2022 German automaker Volkswagen introduced its smallest crossover utility vehicle for the Americans. Replacing the once world best selling Golf in the line-up, the VW

2025 Mazda 3 Turbo Hatchback AWD - What's New Review

2025 Mazda 3 2.5 Turbo Hatchback AWD model year update: Seven years into the design of its entry model, Japanese automaker Mazda is not about to mess with success. The Mazda 3 is the gold standard for the premium sport compact segment, while encroaching on prestige monikers. The 2021

2024 Toyota Tundra Platinum CrewMax 4x4 - What's New Review

RUGGED -IZED PRECIOUS METAL SETTING : Domesticated half-ton trucks don't come much larger than a CrewMax cab and six and a half foot bed. Toyota has been offering their large as the barren Arctic plain version of the Tundra in an ingot like Platinum trim. For those who prefer

2025 Mazda CX-50 Hybrid - Bottom Line Review

ZOOM-ZOOM TO FEWER FUMES: To the followers of Zoom Zoom motoring, Mazda new car dealerships have always been warm and cozy. The brand is respected for Kaizen incremental improvements to its products. However, the Japanese volume enthusiast automaker has not embraced admirers of revolutionary zero tailpipe emissions machines. Remember the

2024 Lexus GX 550 4x4 - Bottom Line Review

A PLUSHER PRADO STAYS TRUE TO ITS ROOTS: Among overland sportsmen, the "field grade" shotgun has the standard blued barrel and wood stock that won't mind brushes with the brush, in contrast with the "presentation grade" firearm with silver and gold barrel engravings and

2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI - What's New Review

2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI model year update : The compact Q-ship sedan remains alive and well in America, filling the void of the demised mid-size executive car. German automaker Volkswagen's Jetta GLI has the longest heritage of the ilk, dating back to 1984. Despite its bulbous grafted trunk, the

2025 Genesis GV80 3.5T AWD - What's New Review

2025 Genesis GV80 3.5T Prestige AWD model year update : The first SUV chapter in the Korean Good Book of luxury driving has not disappointed in either bling, cossetting or value since it launched four years ago. At that time Roadblazing.com gave a thumbs-up to the tested the turbocharged

2024 Toyota Land Cruiser 4x4 - Bottom Line Review

FIELD GRADE OVERLAND GO-TO: There is a quip about taking an African safari in a the historic chopped top Land Rover Defenders, made ubiquitous by Royal colonial expeditions and the film "Born Free." Any outfitter who is genuinely concerned with mobile survival in the harsh Serengeti brings along